Police find toddlers with dead dog; couple arrested

THIBODAUX, La. -- Police have arrested a Thibodaux couple after officers found their two children with a dead dog in the same room.

Police say 21-year-old Kristy Bell and 22-year-old Tyrone Bell were arrested Wednesday after a neighbor reported their dogs may have been mistreated.

Tyrone Bell told officers the dog swallowed an object and was sick but was alive when he left for work Wednesday.

The Daily Comet reports the Bells were booked with aggravated cruelty to animals, simple cruelty to animals, and two counts of child desertion. They remain in the Lafourche Parish jail in lieu of $40,000 bonds each.